STOP USING JAVACRIPT

Everyone I know uses signal, even our neighborhood group messaging is a signal group.

Then again my neighbors are all reasonable people.

Actual health insurance is literally illegal in the USA. It’s all some sort of partially pre-paid health subscription crap that you get punished for not buying. Every time the government steps in the help they make it worse, even as far back as WW2 with “salary caps” leading to extra non-monetary incentives, like medical insurance, company car, etc. Then the government gives business tax breaks to provide insurance making it more expensive for an individual to buy so now your health is tied to your work. Then they help by… etc. etc. etc.

Depends on what age you could as “child”. But yeah.

DO NOT START DRINKING

Debian. It’s FOSS.

I can have a 100% FOSS system. Everything else includes non-free stuff by default.

Remember when the left fought for freedom of speech? When the ACLU would go to court for the Klan’s right to march, or for Nazis to be able to speak? When freedoms for everyone actually meant everyone, not just people we like.

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The downvotes here make me sad for freedom of speech and human rights. The left has abandoned free speech.

https://www.aclu.org/documents/aclu-history-taking-stand-free-speech-skokie

https://reason.com/2020/12/20/would-the-aclu-still-defend-nazis-right-to-march-in-skokie/

How? I don’t see what could find dns-over-https in the middle of other https traffic?

PiHole with upstream dns-over-tls or dns-over-https.

Anybody who wants to can get around DNS blocks. Sure it’ll stop Aunt Sally, but anyone who cares will get around it. It’s a really dumb way of doing things.

Fallout reference

But then again I’ve heard there’s monopolies for that in the USA, instead of actual competition.

Government granted monopolies. It’s the worst. City / county/ state signs deal with ISP X and give them exclusive rights. Then for some reason they don’t spend a lot of time updating anything because they have no competition because of the fucking morons in the government.

I use NFS with caches (cachefilesd) on a local SSD. Works great.

because a bit faster short term

Waaaaaaay more than “a bit”. Like “imperceptible render time” vs 2s for firefox. That adds up a lot.

is worth sacrificing you freedom long term?

What freedom did I lose? I used chromium mostly.

Firefox has performance now, where it did’t in the past. So I don’t use chrome now.

See, I use the best tool for the job I can find, and that changes over time. For a while the was Chrome.

they’re actually just drafting Russian citizens who happen to work at Unilever

This. Someone needed some rage bait.

So every credit card is the same as every other credit card? Cool, can I use yours?

Every drivers license is the same as every other license? I dunno about that, mine has my info on it. I don’t think yours does. These tokens don’t appear to be fungible.

Every token in monopoly is played by any player? No there’s one token per player and they’re not interchangeable.

They are Tokens. That are not fungible. These are NFTs. You don’t have to like it, but try to understand it.

A Token that is unique and different from other tokens is “non-fungible”,

My drivers license is non-fungible. So is my car title.

Dollars are fungible. A $10 bill is a $10 bill.

Cars are not fungible. My car is not the same as your car.

Non-Fungible Tokens can be physical things. There were nfts long before the the internet and you use tons of them, online and off. You just don’t know.

Inflation is a tax on hoarding money.

It’s a tax on my savings and my retirement. My savings lose 2% a year, on purpose. This means I have to play in the investment game to so much as break even. I’d rather not have to play the stock market game and just save my money for retirement without it losing value.

The easiest to explain is NFTs are worthless. They have no legal validity for ownership. The largest portion of the NFT market is buying pictures, pictures which are hosted externally and can be taken down without respect to the NFT contract.

Oh, so you don’t know what an NFT is. An NFT is a non-fungable token. This is a token that is distinct from other tokens, Some tokens are legally valid, some aren’t. You use NFTs every day.

This “NFT = Not legally binding JPEG” thing stuck in your head has got to go. It was just a simple PoC that people took nobody but gamblers care for.

Your credit card is an NFT. Your drivers licence is an NFT. Your car title is an NFT. The car in monopoly is an NFT.

But being able to transfer and store NFTs on a trustless network is an amazing feat, and testing it with silly stuff like jpegs is the way to go before using it for something important.

Now imagine your car title is a legally binding NFT. You can prove you own your car, transfer ownership to the new owner, no trip to the DMV needed.

The supply chain is already using NFTs to prevent forgeries; tokens are created by the manufacturer and sent to the retailers. Retailers verify the tokens and know the real ones didn’t fall off a truck.

At some point you’ll use an NFT to check if those Air Jordan’s on Craigslist are the real thing (or stolen). But like every other NFT you use you probably won’t even know it.

“Capitalism is good”

“Conservatives aren’t completely selfish” (backed with links to leftist sources)

“NFTs aren’t worthless”

“Making everyone people pay for rich people’s college debt is wrong (and a net transfer of wealth upwards)”

“The central banks cause inflation on purpose”

Some are opinions, some are facts people don’t like. All get down voted.

No, not really. Have a “wrong” opinion and see how it goes.

The TLDR:

They hate capitalism because they’re losers and they think that under a different system they wouldn’t be such a loser. But they would be.